Nation: Playing the Florida Game

Some day it may be a case history in the politics of much ado about
nothing; of the latter-day American penchant to be first, even if it is
with the least, to launch the presidential sweepstakes; to invent a
game if there is no game in town. Welcome, fans, to Florida's theater
of the absurd, where on Oct. 13 an unannounced candidate for
re-election (Jimmy Carter) is pitted against an unannounced challenger
(Edward Kennedy) in a dog-and-pony show without substance beyond what
is made ofor...